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Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Ángel Castro y Argiz.

CHILDHOOD

1875Birth
Born on December 5, 1875.

TWENTIES

189822 Years Old
Following the defeat of Spain, Ángel Castro returned to Spain in 1898, but returned to Cuba through the port of Havana the following year.
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He ended up in the Oriente province, working as a labourer for the American United Fruit Company. At this time, American plantations were spreading throughout Cuba, and workers were being hired to cut down the hardwood forests and plant sugar cane. Castro organized a group of men and hired them out to United Fruit to perform this type of labour. According to his son Fidel, Castro once had 300 men working for him. Castro prospered and was eventually able to buy and lease a total of 11,000 hectares of land which yielded pine wood, livestock, and sugar cane in the northern part of what was then Oriente province. Read Less

190327 Years Old
He also had seven more children, including Fidel, by his cook, Lina Ruz González, born in Las Canarias on September 23, 1903 and daughter of Francisco Ruz Vázquez (1874-1961) and Dominga González Ramos, whom he later married on April 26, 1943: Ángela María Castro Ruz (b.
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